Apologia pro site.
As a person of no Latin and no Greek, I hope I got that right.
To adapt a common saying, a person needs a website the way a fish needs a bicycle. Nevertheless, given the growing popularity of the vanity press ever since Gutenberg and the recently lowered barriers to entry into the world of online publication, I suppose that I am as willing as anyone to afflict the unwary reader with my casual observations.
The site is divided into two main blogs and some miscellaneous pages. The first blog, A Web Undone 2, is a general if perhaps jaundiced look at the world at large. The inspiration for the blog's name is the following quotation from Penelope in the Odyssey: "I used to keep working at my great web all day long, but at night I would unpick the stitches again by torch light. I fooled them in this way for three years without their finding it out." The Odyssey, Book XIX, trans. Samuel Butler.
The second blog, the a la menthe, is more focused on Morocco, where I spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer, a sojourn which sparked a lasting interest.
